The Wheel-Turner and His House : Kingship in a Buddhist Ecumene /
"Traces the archaeological and historical record of Anawrahta and his seminal position in forming modern Myanmar, based on the few sources that have been recovered. The Great Chronicle, an important history of the country written by the 18th-century Burmese nobleman U Kala, forms the basis for...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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DeKalb, IL :
NIU Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The genesis of the king
- The king and his ecumene
- The yazawin : orality and literacy
- U Kala and the Anawrahta story
- Makers of Burmese history after U Kala
- The king as hero : memory and history in modern Burma
- Postscript : the narrative comes full cycle.